His principal venues include this website, two illustrated ebooks (parts of the Saga), and a newsletter. He also displays his art and photography in juried exhibitions in galleries and online (EXHIBITIONS, below). And recently there was a 24-page article about SQUEEZESHOT in the arts press (PUBLICATIONS, below).

WEBSITE

The SQUEEZESHOT.org website has received visitors from every state and the District of Columbia, and 111 countries. It has been admitted to Artbase, the Rhizome database of new media art (“contemporary art engaged with technology and the Internet”) at the New Museum in New York City.

EDUCATION & ORGANIZATIONS

B.A., Amherst CollegeM.F.A., NYU School of the Arts

Member, Friends of Photography
(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

PUBLICATIONS

An article about SQUEEZESHOT apppears in the Art Habens Contemporary Art Review. It includes a dozenartworks and an in-depth interview by the curators.

Love That Dances Like Flame, at ART Off The Wall, a fundraiser and exhibition at the Brookline Arts Center, April 29-May 13 (Event: Saturday, May 13, 6:00-9:00pm).

Lightfall, at Bouncing Off the Walls, the Newton Open Studios Spring Juried Show, April 27 through July 15 at NewTV Gallery in Newton. Exhibit theme: work that exudes energy and movement. Juried by Casey Curry, Exhibitions Manager of New Art Center.

Young At Heart and How Far at Up/Rooted, national juried exhibition at the Brookline Arts Center, Brookline, MA. (Juror: Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons) March 17-April 21, 2017. Reception, Friday, March 17, 6-8pm.

Three artworks, Dance, Love That Dances Like Flame, and How Do You Love? at LOVE, an exhibit in honor of Valentine’s Day, at the NewTV Gallery, Newton, MA, February–March, 2016.

Several dozen photographs and other artworks at the Newton Open Studios Fall Juried Art Fest; (Juror: Jessica Roscio, Curator, Danforth Art); City Hall, Newton, MA; November, 2016. One photograph, On the Street (Red) was chosen for the Salon section of the show.

Photographs of Central Maine at Saving Beauty, an art show to benefit the Somerset Woods Trustees and the Sebasticook Regional Land Trust, in Canaan, Maine, May–June, 2015. The exhibition theme: “How do the lakes, forests and rivers of inland Maine inspire your work?”

A photograph and poem (Lightfall and Alive) at the School of the International Center of Photography’s SLIDEFEST 2015: [IN]FLUX, New York City, Spring 2015. The exhibition theme: “Question the habitual and submit images that relate to the state of being [in]flux.”

BIO

Marcus was born in Maine. Son of an Army officer, he grew up in many parts of the U.S. and world (Yokohama, Paris, San Francisco, Washington DC, Colorado Springs, El Paso, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Kansas, Georgia, New York). He attended Amherst College, where he earned a B.A. with honors, and the NYU School of the Arts, where he earned an M.F.A.

Based in New York City, he spent a number of years playing leading roles in plays and films, directing several others, and co-producing a winter season at the Berkshire Theatre Festival (Stockbridge, MA). Between takes of films he was acting in, he took up the guitar and began writing songs and doing session work as a singer, guitarist, and drummer (dumbek, timbales, djembe).

He left the city for New England, embarking on a decade-long career as a songwriter and musician. He performed solo, in a duo, and fronting a band called Old Duh-duh. He recorded several records, and performed around the Northeast at music and arts festivals, colleges, clubs, bars, radio and TV stations, and elsewhere. He also conceived and built Phonesong, a service that played his original songs to callers. It gained local and national media attention, and for several years attracted 15,000 calls a year.

In Boston, he began working in professional audio, providing sound equipment to professional users. In 1989, he founded Parsons Audio (Wellesley, MA), which became (and remains) one of the nation’s leading professional audio suppliers to countless colleges and universities, broadcast networks (CBS Radio, NBC Olympics, ESPN), radio and TV stations, recording studios, bands (Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, Boston, Talking Heads, Cars, New Kids), symphony orchestras (BSO, NY Phil, Chicago), corporate AV departments, museums, government agencies (Library of Congress), opera companies (the Metropolitan), and others. He sold the company in 2010, and resumed artistic pursuits, creating SQUEEZESHOT.

Marcus and his wife, Ellen Kaplovitz, live near Boston; also, frequently, in Maine. They have two grown children and two grandchildren.